Velo: Wix Forum "Posts" Collection Fields

Tip: Before continuing, make sure you've read Working with Wix App Collections.

This document describes the permissions and fields in your Posts collection. 

Permissions

The Posts collection has the following permissions:

  • Read: Anyone
  • Create: None
  • Update: None
  • Delete: None

You cannot change the Posts collection's permissions. 

Fields

Note: This app collection contains read-only fields that cannot be managed from the collection. You can update the fields from the relevant app in your site’s dashboard.

The field name is listed as the heading of each section, with the field ID listed in parentheses, like this: Name (name). The fields appear in this document in the order in which they appear in your collection by default.

ID (_id)

Description: The post ID.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne, hasSome

Read-only: Yes

Category ID (categoryId)

Description: Post category ID.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Owner ID (ownerId)

Description: Post owner's ID.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Title (title)

Description: Post title.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne, contains, startsWith, hasSome

Read-only: Yes

Plain Content (plainContent)

Description: Plain content of the forum post.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: contains, startsWith, hasAll

Read-only: Yes

Best Answer Comment ID (bestAnswerCommentId)

Description: ID of the comment marked as the best answer.

Type: String

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Pinned (pinned)

Description: Whether the post is pinned.

Type: Boolean

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Commenting Disabled (commentingDisabled)

Description: Whether comments are disabled for the post.

Type: Boolean

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Comment Count (commentCount)

Description: Number of comments on the post.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Like Count (likeCount)

Description: Number of likes on the post.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

View Count (viewCount)

Description: Number of times the post has been viewed.

Type: Number

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Created Date (_createdDate)

Description: Date and time the post was created.

Type: Date and Time

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Edited Date (_editedDate)

Description: Date and time the post was last edited.

Type: Date and Time

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Last Activity Date (lastActivityDate)

Description: Date and time of the last activity performed on the post.

Type: Date and Time

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: Yes

Can be filtered: eq, ne, lt, lte, gt, gte

Read-only: Yes

Page URL (pageUrl)

Description: URL of the post page.

Type: URL

Can connect to data: Yes, can connect as a button click action.

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: No

Read-only: Yes

Slug (slug)

Description: The post's slug, which is its URL-friendly name that is unique across the forum.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: Yes

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: Yes

Read-only: Yes

Post Type (postType)

Description: Type of post.

Type: Text

Can connect to data: Yes

Can use in dynamic page URL: No

Can be sorted: No

Can be filtered: eq, ne

Read-only: Yes

Notes: Either "DISCUSSION" or "QUESTION"

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